Riding the wind of rebirth

The first item is NAND flash memory stick. It used to be a Toshiba product, but now Samsung also has it, and Samsung has been in contact with Huahong, hoping to become WinClover's component supplier.

Under such circumstances, if Huahong takes the Zhangjiang joint venture as a condition for purchasing memory sticks, it will be beneficial to both parties to save costs, increase sales, and jointly enhance competitiveness.

The second item is Clover's strengths. Taking advantage of the MiniCOS instruction set, it can work all the way from audio to video. It can be equipped with the MPEG first generation platform. The speed of development to support MPEG second generation should not be too fast.

In other words, although major manufacturers such as SONY have developed the protocol standards for VCD and DVD, all major manufacturers cannot match Clover's ability to transform protocols into application products.

This is a victory of ideas. The big manufacturers' ideas still stay on the workflow of formulating protocols - developing protocol carriers - developing products, while Clover's ideas have turned it into a general research and development carrier - piggybacking protocols - — launch products.

It is equivalent to major factories first preparing the goods, then custom-making a suitable ship for the goods, and then loading the goods; while Clover Company first builds a ship that can load any goods, and then loads the goods directly when they come out. The speed of research and development is naturally different.

The reason why domestic manufacturers in the previous generation were manipulated by foreign countries was because they did not have the decoding chips in their own hands. In the final analysis, they were all "machine dealers."

In this life, Zhou Zhi has obtained the production capacity of video decoding chips after taking over Scobo Company, and is now continuing to research the second-generation chips, which are DVD chips.

Therefore, Zhou Zhi now proposes to lead the research and development of DVD. This is based on the ability to develop DVD decoding chips. Now he does have the qualifications to dominate other manufacturers.

Although the third item is a "future event", it is of great significance. With protocols and standards, the development direction of future automation equipment can be formulated.

If it is small, it can be the core software of future CNC machine tools. If it is large, it can be the industrial control center of an automated workshop. If it develops further, it can be a fully automated factory from ingredients to delivery under the management of the Internet of Things.

Although the last one was not fully realized until Zhou Zhi came over, the countless industrial control equipment, software, and IoT systems created in the process of moving in this direction have already played a huge role in the human world. It has affected all aspects of society.

Although it is still just a blank piece of paper, Zhou Zhi has been able to lead Clover Company to enter, and the reason is also the trump card in his hand-MiniCOS universal platform.

It can be said that while many major manufacturers are still confused, Zhouzhi has already had a clear idea, which is to insist on building a universal IoT platform for information equipment as Clover's main task, and has achieved some results so far.

In the eyes of Matsui Zuo and Jin Chunyi, Zhou Zhi grabbed a golden doll and brought it to the extreme. Although the small seed planted had just sprouted, it had already sketched out what it would look like when it finally grew into a towering tree. look.

However, you can't say that he is wrong, because no matter the short-term, medium-term, or long-term goals, what he has planned so far will have matching outputs, or in the near future, there will be matching outputs. .

Not only that, the benefits are visibly rich, otherwise it would not attract the jealousy of major domestic manufacturers, who want to get involved and get a share of the pie.

Matsui Zuo found that this kind of "lunch party" organized by Zhou Zhi was really a good way to communicate. Zhou Zhi explained all this clearly while eating and drinking with them. The two sides had disputes and exchanges. In this informal way, You can speak freely without any scruples in the situation, which is indeed very efficient in grasping the true intentions of both parties. Everything Zhou Zhi used was a conspiracy, and the reality was clearly placed in front of Matsui and Kim Chun-il. This was a victory for the idea. Japanese and Korean manufacturers now want to develop the chips they need under the constraints of the old idea. It is not as efficient as loading protocol modules on mature platforms.

However, it will also take a long time to start from scratch and develop a universal platform of our own, and to catch up with Clover's current level.

And it is difficult to bypass the patent barriers built by Clover and Microsoft. Even if it is open source Linux, only the bottom kernel is open source. It must be easy to use, easy to develop, have numerous interfaces, and meet the protocols. It cannot be bypassed. The MiniCOS patent package created by Kai Clover Company was spent huge sums of money.

According to international practice, when you can't beat someone, joining is the only way to go. Instead of wasting time on endless competition, it's better to work together to carve up the world.

Or to put it another way, before the market is divided, there is a cooperative relationship. After the market is divided, the cruel competition will really begin.

It just so happens that the market is still in its infancy, and the market left to be divided up by major manufacturers will be in the hundreds of billions of dollars, and this is just the "starting price."

Therefore, the main contradiction now is the contradiction between insufficient production capacity in the early stage of development and the extreme hunger of the market, rather than the contradiction between overcapacity and thin profits in the later stage of development and oversaturated market.

For the former contradiction, the solution is simple and crude, that is, cooperation, investment, and building factories! ASAP!

The three of them chatted until late at night. The thoughtful attitude made Matsui Zuo and Jin Chun feel more comfortable. Openness, frankness, transparency, what they could and couldn't do, what they wanted and what they didn't want were all laid out in the open.

Although the two of them have their own plans for building a NAND flash factory, now is not the time to break up. Moreover, it is a competition between Toshiba and Samsung, and Clover is the one that needs to actively fight for it, so they have to break up. Not now.

Among the remaining two items, the major manufacturers behind Kim Chun-il did not participate, while SONY behind Matsui Zou was obviously far behind. The introduction of MPEG-1 decoding chips and VCDs deeply shocked Matsui Zou. , after quiet calculation, I am afraid that as Zhou Zhi said, with Clover as the leader, SONY takes out the existing technology, the two parties realize technology sharing, formulate specifications, build a DVD player in the shortest time, and then harvest The global market is serious.

As for the third item, it is not just Japanese and Korean electronics companies, it should include machine tool manufacturers, automotive robot manufacturers, and even some industry associations need to participate.

But should things be done? Obviously, we should do it, but can we leave Clover Company behind? Obviously, it's not easy to put aside.

Whether this standard will be led by cutting-edge universal platform architects or by traditional industrial control manufacturers is still a matter of debate. As "brokers", Matsui Zo and Kim Jun-il are not qualified to speak, but they both said that they can serve as a "bridge of friendship" and convey Zhou Zhi's intentions to the country.

Of course, Zhou Zhi also said that he would use his influence and do his best to persuade Director Hu to agree to these measures.

By the time we came out of the noodle shop, it was past midnight and the second night show of the World Cup had begun.